Marina Kuncheva

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Marina Kuncheva is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with over 12 years of professional experience.

Her professional path began with work as a psychologist at DCC "Ascendent", where she has been practicing since 2011. In 2012, she completed an internship and participated in a supervision group at UMBAL "Lozenets", and in 2014 completed an internship in the endocrinology department of SBALAG "Maichin Dom". A year later, in 2015, she specialized through an internship in the psychiatric department of the Military Medical Academy.

Between 2018 and 2022, she worked as an external consultant for PharmaLex and NM Genomix, gaining valuable experience in the healthcare and consulting sectors. Since 2021, she has been co-founder and lead psychologist of Momsanity by FEIA - a platform focused on the mental health and wellbeing of mothers. From the same year, she has been lead psychologist at the Digiburn platform, which focuses on the prevention and management of burnout. In 2026, she joined the team at MBAL VITA as a clinical psychologist, where she continues her practice and work with patients.

Her main professional interests are focused on women's mental health in the perinatal period - pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum stage. She works with conditions such as postpartum depression and anxiety, as well as the emotional challenges of women with reproductive and hormonal problems. She also provides support during the menopause period. She also consults parents on issues related to child development and the mother-baby bond.

She has clinical experience in hospital settings as well as private practice. She works with adults who wish to deepen their self-knowledge, as well as with people experiencing difficulties in interpersonal relationships, communication, and emotional resilience. She supports patients with anxiety and depressive symptoms. She applies an integrative approach with a primary focus on the psychodynamic perspective.

She is co-founder of the digital platform Momsanity by FEIA, which provides women in the postpartum period with tools for improving emotional adaptation and sense of wellbeing.

Within VITA Hospital, she provides free psychological support to patients and their loved ones during their hospital stay - at their request or at the request of the medical team.

She additionally offers individual psychological assessment, counseling, and psychotherapy. She prepares expectant mothers for an easier and more conscious birth and helps manage pain through the technique of hypnoanalgesia (for example, during medical interventions accompanied by pain - as a complement to standard pain relief methods, in cases of traumatic, post-operative or chronic pain, as well as fear of medical procedures such as sampling).

Education:

• 2007-2011 - Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
• 2011-2014 - Master's degree in "Clinical Psychology - Psychoanalytic Perspective", New Bulgarian University

Additional qualifications:

• Psychodrama - assistant, Institute "Bernhard Achtenberg" (850 academic hours)
• Basic courses in hypnosis and hypnotherapy - "Bulgarian Association of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy" (400 academic hours)
• Course in hypnoanalgesia - "Bulgarian Association of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy" (48 academic hours)
• Personal therapeutic experience in CBT - "Institute of Child Mental Health" (250 academic hours)
• Dynamic interview - Institute "Bernhard Achtenberg" (120 academic hours)
• Individual supervision (over 200 hours)

Member of the Society of Psychologists in Bulgaria